Mary Giacomini is a Colorado artist who loves to paint the Rocky Mountain landscape. She paints proficiently in oil, pastel and watercolor. She teaches art classes both out of her studio and for the Loveland Museum Gallery, in Loveland, Colorado.
Monday, March 16, 2015
Loose Moose
Loose Moose
I have a love of pallet knife painting. When my oil painting class requested a lesson on 'Van Gogh animals" I jumped to the task as I love his loose, swirling strokes. When I start a painting I know will have very heavy impasto, I start with a good drawing and don't add the thick paint until I have a color theme and good composition in place. When I'm ready to lay on the swirls of paint with a pallet knife, I get brave and ad more brilliant colors that the reference photo portrays. I do ad up to a 50% dilution of either Gamblin's Solvent Free Gel or Resingel to my oil paint to speed up the drying time. "" is 12" x 16", oil on linen. Contact me for current availabilty.
Vincent Van Moose
I painted 'Vincent Van Moose' in 2014 in a similar style. This painting sold the day I posted it on the internet.
You can see more of my artwork online: Facebook page (open to the public)
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